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hyphenate
03:07
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a derelict on the plate but on paper I’m great
but I’m walking a finer line
not sunk sinkin in the middle like last late taste spate
I am thinkin’ its divine
I’m thinking its divine
I’m thinking its divine
I’m thinking its divine
I’m thinking its divine
I say live it up really really really live it up
cause who wants to trade a grey day
somber inward beaten backward when there’s a rainbow play for play
i trade play for play and in a friendly way with you
cause i feel you’re true blue and yeah i feel great
I'm thinking its profound
I’m thinking its profound
I’m thinking its profound
I’m thinking its profound
I’m thinking its profound
a gesture a creature a film and a feature commercial a casting
for fun fingered lasting and deep chuckle lambasting
and dyeing and casting and flame throwing me blasts from your dayz
I’m thinking this out loud
I’m thinking this out loud
I’m thinking this out loud
I’m thinking this out loud
I’m thinking this out loud
I tied up both the lines to you a’ makin' this beat
a phasing shape shifted and gracious and great
and mercurial a smoke swirls resolving
and dissolving my claim on my own heart
and you don’t even gotta take my name place taste
cause baby we could hyphenate
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I have a life/knife
02:33
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I have a life
sharp as a butcher's knife
I have a life
dull as any sword you'd use
to pierce me in my heart...
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biota yeoman
biota 0h yeoman
biota yeoman
biota yeoman
mustache
wearing plaid
biota oh yeoman
the dichotomy
ever salty
biota yeoman
biota, you're walking yes you can
yes you can
biota yeoman man man
have mustache
you bite it on accident
when you're eating pistachios
biota yeoman
biota yeoman
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One Side
02:22
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there are people who know
more about me than i know myself
if you'd like to get to know me
it's gonna take time
i can change on a dime
i have many times
but now i'm solid rooted rooted solid rooted rooted
for this time
i'm making grave advances into solitary time
but advocating balance means
walking many lines
and serpentine my angle when
navigating blind
so i've captured an elixir
made from nectar from a vine
that helps to lift the lenses
that have covered both my eyes
where the pundits always get me
is that they're sticking to one line
and my serpentine advances
don't allow for just one side
there are people who know
more about me than i know myself
if you'd like to get to know me
it's gonna take time
i can change on a dime
i have many times
but now i'm solid rooted rooted solid rooted rooted
for this time
and making great advances into solitary time
but advocating balance means
walking many lines
and serpentine my angle when
navigating blind
so i've captured an elixir
made from nectar from a vine
that helps to lift the lenses
that have covered both my eyes
you know, i've said it before
where the pundits always get ya
is that they're sticking to one line
and my serpentine advances
don't allow for just one side
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A Portion Is Mind
04:48
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a portion is mind
a portion well timed
a thought escapes rewind
pined and climbing
twisted roots and vibes
and clever catting coating
and walking on the line
the skin escapes division
soak in the ether-divine tribe
a portion is mined
for posterity's earthen line
and for marks and solemn moles
and digging dirt trap trolls
pined and climbing
twisted roots and vines (this time)
a portion is mined a portion well timed
and looking at a ticking hand
and processing the line
and dividing soiled body parts
and climbing on the vine
and limiting the frames of vision
and coercing tribes of blind
a portion is mind
a portion well timed
a thought escapes rewind
pined and climbing
twisted roots and vibes
and clever catting coating
and walking on the line
the skin escapes division
soak in the ether-divine tribe
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6. |
Foot Falls Rapidly Fall
05:01
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i'm walking past the window
i'm walking past the open door
i smell the cool breeze coming in
and why am i looking/wanting for more?
i'm walking past the window
the open door beckons me
i walk past the door
i walk past the hedge
and now i'm out into the street again
wide open street
my footfalls rapidly fall
my footfalls rapidly fall
my footfalls rapidly fall
i'm running down the street
runnin down the street
floodlit from above
i hear a voice decry "dear neighbor"
and recognize it's the neighbor flavor of love
and once again im running
making time and distant dearest dance
and once again im past the hedge
and past promoting outer edge
and quick debunking fully fledged
my footfalls rapidly fall
my footfalls rapidly fall
my footfalls rapidly fall
i'm runnin down the street
runnin down the street
floodlit from above
i hear an angel beckon me
professing undying love
i make a course correction
and tender i do meet
cause in this room is holy boom
and connection sweet n discreet
so if our paths should finally meet
and running i'm no more
keep fastened all the windows
and barricade the door
and cripple me with potions
no doctor can deny
and set me loose on holy juice
and candy apple pie
'cause evermore i'm running
and tangled are my laces
and deft and sure a lover's grip
to blanket all the faces
i'm walking past the window
i'm walking past the open door
i smell the cool breeze coming in
why/what am i looking for, more?
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Grip Sip
04:27
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grip sip lip lick
i'm on a steady
drip drip plan
i'm walking down the street
goin to the mall
to buy a party for y'all
i'm go the party store
spend all my Di Nero for
something for you
to take along
this pleasure journey that you're on
rollin riding crossin the oasis
rollin riding drivin right through that oasis
grip sip lick of the lip
look at you
do the twist
walkin around
walkin in town
through the oasis
partyin down
lookin to your left
and to your right
walking walking out of site
in the party time
its right
in that party time we know no night
grip sip
hey get a grip
you're losin your cool
you're on that drip drip plan
hey you gotta
stand up straight
to celebrate
walkin round in the desert
look there's a desert flower
right there
another desert flower to the left
another desert flower underfot
look you gotta know
that's just the way the story's always gone
grip sip lick up the lips
you had a meal
voracious appetite
you have always had
time to look under a rock for awhile
for survival mathematics
were never your strongest suit
so look under a rock
forget the schematic
and under the rock
you find the key to an attic
you open the door
creaky wooden floor
and under the floor is the house
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Lost Time
04:00
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there was once lost time
flowing down the stream
landscape impervious to time
the time has a way
so slow
so vast
landscape gives way
to the vast scope
there was once lost time
went rollin down the stream
like a dog over the rocks
slippin and sliding
cant find the foot hold
there was once lost time
rising in waves to my ear
from the stream
there was once lost time
flowing down the stream
slipping and sliding
and beloowy graaaalllin ridin
and falling and falling
and flowing down the stream
the landscape
impervious to time
except in the case of
vast time
so vast
slipping and sliding by
so fast
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Oh Yes, I'm in a Dream
02:06
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there comes
a large hulking shape
to my tent walls
which have become sheer
I see that its not one
but two hulking shapes
cow-like
menacing
oh yes, I'm in a dream
oh yes, I'm in a dream
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10. |
Life Line
08:20
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guess i better rhyme
guess i better fall in line
guess i better drop a lil dime beat on this
rhyme
im droppin dimes im feeling fine
im walking the line
im right
in sight
if i take a look inward
what do i find?
im right in line
guess im right in the sight of the line
the life line
walking following the line
life line
guess im right on time
drop a lil dime on this beat here
oh look ive gone clear
cant see me now
im a ghost in the wall
yeah im walking the line
feeling fine
look at me just about to drop a dime
on this beat tonight
look at me go
i think its starting to show
in my eyes
look at me go
i think its starting to show now
in my eyes
that everthings in line
when im droppin this dime
on this beat tonight
feeling fine
feeling fine
feeling fine
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primal instinct
penned to the paper and pinned to the wall
shedding the strictures impairing us all
the strict headed grey men
are taking a fall
and falling and flailing
and flailing and flying
and self rectifying
in cases where graces evolve
and un-mutable distinctions should slowly dissolve
and the tied tightened laces
unraveling posthaste
and all we need now is the grace of a kind face
in helping so no body falls
too far ‘neath the surface
‘cause in the depths is a blade
in a sheath finely made
and if people too far fall
too deep towards the blade
they may grab the handle
and brandish the blade
and blindness could blind them
to kindnesses given
and the lens that they look through
their tarnished dark worldview
could present in an action so grave
so what do we do true
to prevent all this happening
we structure a space for
a societal re-mapping
where the science reminds us
of the beautiful complexities
of human expression
and the space thats created
could be the one that’s attuned for
evolution’s next chapter
to re-map all the norms
and to broaden perspectives
and equivocate no more
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12. |
garland
02:24
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Melty Smiler Fairfield, Iowa
BUY tapes at illuminated paths
and warm gospel
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